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How Wordle brought us back together
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How Wordle brought us back together

Spelling Bee, too, and Words With Friends. Who knew online word games would get us talking to each other again?



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Multiplayer online word games that you can play on your mobile devices are exploding in popularity and social significance. Analog word games like Crossword puzzles have been in newspapers for nearly 100 years. But when games like Wordle and Spelling Bee became available on smartphone apps, the social aspect of word games changed, as Schuyler Velasco reports in Experience magazine. You can play these word games alone, but they don’t have to be solitary pursuits anymore. Now they work as social activities that can bring people together across long distances. 

Take-Aways

  • Once word games like Wordle and Spelling Bee became available on smartphone apps, the nature of playing word games changed.
  • The social aspect of online word games also changed how designers create them.
  • Online word games increasingly appeal to people older than 50.

About the Author

Schuyler Velasco, the former deputy editor of Experience Magazine, is now senior writer at NGN Magazine.


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